The negatives from which this current body of
work was produced were recently discovered at a country home where Masahisa
Fukase spent time away from the pressures of Tokyo. These eclectic images,
never exhibited before, represent a playfulness rarely found in this
artist's work.

Masahisa Fukase is considered to be both a
legend and an enigma in his native Japan. For a culture that is
traditionally reluctant to expose emotion in public, the expressionistic
character of Fukase's work was, in part, the result of the development of
the generation that evolved after WWII.